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Made in his image, remember? I should expect a mind created by a God who wants his creation to know him would be capable of sufficiently understanding him inherently apart from the teachings of other humans. Not in a generic, "there is a God because the sunset is pretty" way but n a specific way. The first conscious thought of every human should be "Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life". Any deficiencies in our ability to understand God are the fault of the creator, not the creation. Religion is inherently illogical, illustrated by the fact that the field of apologetics exists. A real, omnipotent creator God would not require his creation to explain him.

Roger...solid stuff!

Re the bolded...it's not the "fault" of the Creator; it's the choice. And only in that choice, is TRUE individual sovereignty realized. For if God were to make it the ultimate and obvious truth (it's existence, over that of the individual)...then such would be a nullification to them that DO NOT desire to make God the ultimate value...over their own self. I.e., like the 'shining angel'

chose to do.

It's up to us to determine whether or not there is a *God*; at least in our own subjective version of reality. If one chooses not to validate the Idea that Conscious Being (total unity/love, aware of it's self) as being the model from the which we "are created in It's image)...then it is well within one's power to do so. NWS that there are diametrically-opposed consequences to such a choice; such consequence being that one's ULTIMATE reality is created by one's own subjective choice. And one's partners/brethren...become mere 'phantoms' of one's own imagination. Translation...ultimate aloneness. Hell...in Biblespeak.

I know this makes absolutely no sense, to them who haven't built a bridge out into the philosophical abstract. Whatever. Faith based on faith...or Faith based on Truth...or Faith based on Love. All end up in the same place. Faith (belief) based on no god - but Nature - also leads to a particular end. You can love Nature...but Nature WILL NEVER love you back. Because it has no (consciousness, at it's core) from which to love one back.

Choose wisely. To each their own. It all goes back to the Source. More a matter of how one feels about the 'transition'.